Maurice Orbach

Maurice Orbach (13 July 1902 – 24 April 1979) was a British Labour Party politician.

Life

Orbach was born to a Jewish family.

Orbach was educated at technical college in Wales and as an extramural student at New York University. He was general secretary of the Trades Advisory Council from 1940 and chairman of Central Middlesex Group hospital management committee.

Orbach contested Willesden East in 1935 and in a 1938 by-election. He was elected Member of Parliament for Willesden East in 1945, serving until his defeat in 1959, and for Stockport South from 1964 until his death just before the 1979 general election. His successor was Thomas McNally.

In 2010 The Guardian referred to him as "a self-proclaimed Labour Zionist who had conspicuously failed to support Israel during the Suez crisis."^[1]

Children

Daughter Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist and writer, and co-founder of The Women's Therapy Centre in London.^[2]

Son Laurence Orbach taught history at Columbia University, New York, before founding Quarto Publishing in London in 1976. He is currently chairman and CEO of The Quarto Group, Inc.^[3]

References

1. ^ [|Alderman, Geoffrey] (19 April 2010). "The Jewish vote really does count". Guardian Newspaper. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/19/jewish-vote-really-does-count. Retrieved 17 October 2010. 
2. ^ "Susie Orbach". Macmillan Publishing. undated. http://us.macmillan.com/author/susieorbach. Retrieved 17 October 2010. 
3. ^ "Board". Quarto Group. undated. http://www.quarto-ir.co.uk/content/company/board.asp. Retrieved 17 October 2010. 

External links

• Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Maurice Orbach

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Samuel Schofield Hammersley	Member of Parliament for Willesden East 1945–1959	Succeeded by Trevor Skeet
Preceded by Harold Macdonald Steward	Member of Parliament for Stockport South 1964–1979	Succeeded by Tom McNally

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Name	Orbach, Maurice
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Date of birth	13 July 1902
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Date of death	24 April 1979
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